Research Article

Sentence Comprehension and Its Association with Executive Functions in Patients with Parkinson's Disease

Table 1

Demographic and clinical features (mean (±SD)) of the PD patients and healthy control subjects.

PD patientsHC subjects
( )( )

Gender (male : female)16 : 1216 : 12
Handedness (right : left)27 : 124 : 4
Age in years61.39 (8.80)62.93 (9.04)
Education in years13.21 (3.90)13.57 (3.25)
MMSE score28.11 (1.13)27.64 (1.22)
MADRS score6 (4.00)3.32 (2.83)
Duration of disease in years6.04 (4.55)n/a
UPDRS part III15.68 (5.35)n/a
 (i) Right-side hypokinesia3.84 (2.43)n/a
  (ii) Left-side hypokinesia3.12 (2.28)n/a
H&Y staging1.79 (.52)n/a
LEDD-score786.94 (472.45)n/a

HC: healthy control, n/a: not applicable.